We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOnly those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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